U.S. luge team loses sleds on Airport Road

The sleds fell out of the back of the team's truck somewhere in East Allen Township

February 21, 2013

Police are looking for some help locating some sleds for the U.S. Luge Team recruiter lost in East Allen Township.

Gordy Sheer, a marketing director for U.S. Luge Team Association, said he had been scouting for some local talent, sleders between the ages of 10-13 years old, at the Blue Mountain Area Ski Resort last Friday after a long drive from the team's headquarters in New York. He packed up the sleds in a box truck before he headed to a hotel in Bethlehem.

Apparently, the door wasn't secured and five or six sleds fell off the truck somewhere on Airport Road, near Old Carriage Road, state police at Bethlehem said.

A resident near that intersection report the sleds were lying on the edge of the road and a driver of a black truck stopped, asking who they belonged to. When the resident didn't know, and the truck driver took the sleds.

"I suppose, to somebody passing by, they could have looked like junk that somebody discarded," Sheer said. "I'm operating under the idea that [the sleds] were lost, not stolen."

Sheer said the sleds, which cost between $400-$600, are about 18-inches wide and three feet tall.

Anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Robert Hooper at 610-861-2026.

The U.S. Luge Association is based in Lake Placid, N.Y. where the 1980 XIII Olympic Winter Games were held.